Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia /

Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	High, Casey, 1977- author.
Imprint:	Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Interpretations of culture in the new millennium Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
Subject:	Huao Indians -- Ecuador -- Ethnic identity. Huao Indians -- Ecuador -- Social conditions. Huao Indians -- Wars. Violence -- Ecuador. Ethnic relations. Huao Indians -- Social conditions. Violence. Ecuador -- Ethnic relations. Ecuador. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11907197

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ISBN:	9780252039058 9780252080678 9780252097027 0252097025 025203905X 025208067X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index. English. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by the publisher.
Summary:	Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of the Waorani's social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows how these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.
Other form:	Print version: Victims and warriors Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015] 9780252039058 (cloth : alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Civilized Victims
Chapter 2. Becoming Warriors
Chapter 3. Like the Ancient Ones
Chapter 4. Lost People and Distant Kin
Chapter 5. Intimate Others
Chapter 6. Shamans and Enemies
Chapter 7. Victims and Warriors
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index